iTunes Store Not Working Properly in Windows 7

My iTunes store on my computer isn't working right. It loads very slowly if at all and won't let me click on anything except things on the panel along the right side. Any ideas on what I do to fix this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

(P.S. iTunes in general is fairly slow and I have the newest version of iTunes- 10.3, and the issue was the same on previous versions)

When I followed the given directions it shows iTunes is checked for allow, but it still says not enabled in iTunes and the store still doesn't work right. Any ideas on what that means?

Interesting. Are you also running a third-party firewall on the PC like McAfee or Norton, md? (Running multiple firewalls can cause some idiosyncratic symptoms with iTunes. It's best practice in general to be only running one.)

As far as I can tell I am only running one, but I'm not the most technologically literate when it comes to that. I have Trend Antivirus, could that cause a problem? (and just an FYI, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes and that didn't change anything)

If your current user account is an administrative account already, it's possible you're had a permission go strange here for a file or folder or a registry key. It's always a bit tricky to tell what permission is awry with one of these, so I generally try to avoid "fixing" things for fear of mucking something up ... So if you don't want to have to do a "Run as administrator" every time you go to the Store, you could set iTunes to automatically launch as an administrator.

To do that, right-click your iTunes.exe again, but this time select "Properties". In the compatibility tab, check the "Run as administrator" box and click OK.

I'm having similar issues--can't connect to iTunes store. I did a clean uninstall/reinstall and that fix it. I'm running iTunes as an administrator and Windows Firewall is setup to allow iTunes through. Diagnostics pass, yet iTunes store does not load. One other interesting bit is that my other laptop on the same wireless network connects fine.

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